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Ingredients  Tomatoes - 3  Onion - 2 Ginger - 2 coin sized Dry Red chilli - 2 Salt as per tatse Method Heat Kadai with 1 tbspn of oil. Add dry red chilli and ginger. Add chopped Onion and saute for 2 mins. Add chopped tomatoes and saute until soft.  Grind them with little water and salt. Do the tempering with mustard , a pinch of hing and curry leaves. Serve it with Idly / dosa. Variations You can try... * Add mint leaves , coriander leaves and curry leaves little fried with other  ingredients and grind it .

Ingredients Potato - 3 Boiled Coconut - 2 tbspn Onion - 3 Tomato - 3 Ginger garlic paste -1 tbspn For tempering Mustard, Cumin, Curry leaves, Green chilli - 1 Corriander leaves for garnish. Method  Boil potatoes and mash it . Heat kadai with 1 tbspn of oil , add mustard , cumin (i love adding cumin in every gravy dish i do ) Add curry leaves , ginger garlic paste Add chopped onion and saute for few mins. Add chopped tomatoes and green chilli  Saute for few mins until tomato becomes soft and mushy Add mashed potatoes  Add water , 1 tbspn of homemade chilly powder and 1 tspn of tumeric powder Add salt. Mix the gravy and Let it cook for 5 mins in medium flame. Grind coconut with little water. Add coconut paste at the end and cook for two mins. Add corriander leaves & switch off the stove. Serve it hot with Idly / dosa / Roti..

Ingredients  Coconut milk - 2 cups. Basmati rice - 1 cup. Meal maker / Soya chunks - half cup Capsicum - 2 (use different color so that appearance will be good) Onion - 2 (chopped straight) Green chilli - 2 (slice it straight) Ginger garlic paste - 1tbspn Salt as per taste. Mint & corriander leaves for garnish. Patta, bay leaf , Cloves  Sombu/ Aniseed - 1 tspn ( i prefer powdered) Steps Soak basmati rice before starting all other steps. Heat pan with 2 tbspn of vegetable oil  Add patta,bayleaf, cloves (opt) & sombu powder . Add Green chilli. Add ginger garlic paste. Add Chopped Onion & saute for few minutes. Add Chopped Capsicum . Add Soaked Rice & Add coconut milk  Add Salt & mix well. In a seperate bowl , boil water & put the meal maker in it.  Switch off it after 2 mins. Drain the water from meal maker completely by pressing each by your hand. Add meal maker to the pan we are cooking rice. Close...

Ingredients  Wheat flour - 1 cup Turmeric powder - 1tspn Curd - half cup Salt as per taste. Garam masala powder - 1 tsp. Finely Chopped onion - half cup. Finely chopped Corriander leaves - half cup Green chilli - 2 finely chopped. Method of making masala wheat dosa 1.In a Bowl take wheat flour & curd , mix together . 2.Add water for getting perfect dosa batter consistency. 3.Let this batter be closed for 10 mins. 4.Add chopped onion , chilli , corriander leaves , salt ,  garam masala and tumeric powder . 5.Mix everything together. 6.Heat dosa pan, spread butter or vegetable oil over it. 7.Make dosa with masala wheat flour batter. Turn it gently . Serve it with Chutney.

Ingredients : Rice flour - 2 cups ( as per your requirement ) Salt Sweet Coconut Milk Grind grated coconut & required sugar with water ( example 5 tbspns of coconut & 3 tbspn of sugar ) Grind well and filter the coconut milk. Add crushed cardamon 3 or 4 to this milk & mix well. Check for sugar. if needed add it as per your requirement. Method  Click on image to enlarge Mix salt and Rice flour.  Clean the idiyappam maker  Use boiling water spoon by spoon & mix the salted rice flour. Make a dough as in below pic Fill the dough in idiyappam maker I used traditional south indian idly cooker here. you can also use normal idly cooker. press the idayappam maker in circular motion . Close the lid of cooker . Stem it  for 10 - 15 mins ( until the idiyappam is cooked well ) Idaiyappam with sweet coconut milk @divsrecipe.blogspot.in

Ingredients :  Broken Wheat - 2 cups Water - 4 to 5 cups  Chopped Onion ( medium size ) - 2 Curry leaves - few Mustard and urad dhal - To temper. Jeeragam - 1 tspn (optional) Salt.  Method : 1. Heat Pan with 3 to 4 tbspn of Oil . 2. Drop mustard , urad dhal , jeera , curry leaves and then the chopped onions. 3. After onion turns little transparent, add water. 4. Add Salt and check the salt content in water ( if u miss salt here, you cannot add it later ) 5. Now drop our broken wheat when the water in pan starts bubbling . 6. Don't stir continuously cos it may turn like paste. 7. Stir once or twice and leave it in low flame until you reach the perfect upma consistency. 8. Stir at last so it won't get stick in pan due to heat.

Method : Cut the bread in middle in any shape you desire .,i.e., a round / heart shape. Take 2 eggs and beat them up. Heat pan with some butter / ghee. Place the bread , pour the egg inside the hole of bread. Sprinkle some pepper and salt in it. keep it in low flame , Cover the pan with any lid. Turn the bread once the egg is cooked. 

Ingredients : Pudhina / Mint - 1 cup Corriander - 1 cup Curry leaves - 1/2 cup Chopped Tomato (medium sized) - 2 Chopped Onion (medium sized)- 2 Grated Coconut - 1/2 cup Garlic - 3 Tamarind - little amt Urad dhal - 1tbspn Red chillies - 6 to 8 Mustard - 1 spn Salt. Method : 1.Heat pan with 2 spn of oil. 2.Drop mustard, urad dhal and fry until it turn light brown. 3.Fry all the above ingredients and grind well with salt as per your taste. 4.Goes well with idli , Dosa :)

Ingredients : Left Over idlies : 6 to 8 Idly podi : 4 tbspns Salt to taste Oil : 2 tbspn Curry Leaves : few Urad dhal : 1 tbspn Chilly powder : half spn. Method : Heat Pan with 2 tbspn of oil. Drop urad dhal and fry untill it turn light brown. Drop Curry leaves and then the chopped idlies Fry this for 1 min. Now Add the Idly Dosa Podi (do visit our  Idly dosa podi  prepration) and the chilly powder. Mix well and the salt as per your taste. (note that idly and podi we use already have salt so aware of how much you add here) Fry and cook this 5 to 6 mins. Serve with Smile :)

Ingredients : Red chilly - min 30 to  max40 Urad dhal - 1 full cup Garlic - 5 to7  Curry leaves - half cup Dhaniya / corrainder seeds : 2 tbspns Salt to taste Oil - 1 tbspn Asafoetida - small amount (not the powdered one) Db's Idly Dosa Podi Method : 1. Heat pan with 1 tbspn of oil. 2. Fry Asafoetida and keep aside.. 3.On the same pan fry red chillies (Dont fry too much) 4.Similarly fry all other items separately ( without oil ) 5.Now grind chillies first and all other with salt. 6.Grind coarsely and serve with gingelly oil for better taste :)

Here, with a bigu smile am glad to publish my friend Raji's Recipe... Ingredients : Tomato - 4 Dry Red chilly - 3 Salt to taste Asafoetida Curry Leaves Oil - 2 tbspn Method : 1. Grind Tomatoes and chillies with salt. 2. Heat pan with oil . 3. Drop Mustard,asafoetida and curry leaves. 4. Add the tomato paste and cook it well (5-8 mins minimum) until tomato puree comes to a thick form. 5. Raji's Tangyyyy Tomato Thokku is Ready to serve. I love this with idly and chappathi :)

Ingredients  : •  Pudhina leaves – 1 bowl •  Coconut – 2 or 3 table spoons / as per your taste. (optional) •  Varamilagai / Dried red chilly – 5 / as per your taste •  Salt – as per your taste •  Tamarind – Small amt. •  Oil – 1 spoon •  Mustard , Black gram dhal , Asafoetida. Method : • Heat pan with oil , drop Mustard , Black gram dhal (ulutham parupu ) , Asafoetida  (Perungaya thool). • Then drop the red chillies , tamarind, 1 garlic ( oru pallu vellai poondu) . Let these be cooked for few seconds. • To that drop our washed mint leaves and coconut (opt) , heat this mixture till our mint leaves are shirnked well.  Grind this mixture with salt as per your taste. Note :   While Grinding the chutney ,  do keep on tasting in between so that you can adjust the salt , tamarind and chilli. If suppose you found that you added too much of chillies and its tooo hot , just add some more co...

Ingredients : Idly - 5 (cut each idly into 4 pieces) Oil - 3 tbspns Chilly Powder - 1 Spn Salt - to taste Method : 1.Heat pan with Oil and Drop idly pieces and fry for 1 min. 2.Add Chilly powder and salt. 3.Mix well and cook for 1 min. 4.Serve it hot as evening snack. No side-dish needed.

Ingredients : Poatoes - 5 medium sized Chopped Onion - 2 Chopped Tomato -1 Chopped Green Chilly - 5 Curry Leaves Coriander Leaves Mustard - 1 tspn Bengal gram and Urad Dal (both optional) - 1Tbspn. Chilly Powder - 1spn Turmeric Powder - half spn. Best Sidedish for Puri.. Potato Masala Method : 1.Cut Each Potato into two. 2.Clean it and Pressure cook for 4 whistles. 3.Peel the Potatoes and smash it lightly i.e.,not as paste. 3.Heat Pan with 2 tbspn of oil, drop mustard , dhals mentioned (optional) , curry leaves and then onion. 4.After Onions are cooked for 1 min add tomato to it and cook for 1 more min. 5.Now Add lightly smashed potatoes and pour half cup of water to it. 6.Add turmeric powder , chilly powder and salt.Mix it well and cook for two min. 7.Serve it with hot Poori or keep it in middle of dosa and say it Aloo masala dosa is ready :D Note : Do not add too much of water to masala. If accidentally added ,wait until it evaporates .. ha ha n...

* Hot and Tangy Tomato Chutney * Ingredients : Chopped Onion -2  Chopped Tomato -2  Dry Red Chilly -4 Tamarind - very small amt (or as your taste) Salt to taste Method : Fry all the above items one by one and Grind it to paste. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Coconut Tomato Chutney  * Ingredients : Chopped Tomato -2 Chopped Onion -2 Coconut - half cup Urad dhal - 1 Tbspn Dry Red Chilly - 3to4 Salt Method : 1.Fry Urad dhal (ulutham paruppu) until it turn light brown. 2.Drop Onion , Red chilly and fry for 1 min. 3.Drop Tomato and fry it for 1 min. 4.Add Coconut and cook for 1 min. 5.Add salt and grind it. Goes well with Idly :)   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Coriander Tomato Chutney * Ingredients : Chopped Tomato -2 Chopped Onion -2 Dry Red Chilly - 3 to 4 Coriand...

Ingredients : Dosa Batter - 2 cups Rice flour - 1 cup Maida flour - 2 full tbspn Rava - 2 and 1/2 full tbspn Pepper and Jeera - Coarsely powdered 3 tbspn. Fried Curry Leaves - few Chopped Onion - 2 Finely Chopped Coriander leaves - 1 cup Salt to taste. Method : 1.Take a bowl , Mix all the flour and prepare the batter little watery than usual dosa batter. 2.Add salt and Coarsely Powdered black pepper and jeera. 3.Mix well so that it doesn't have any lump. 4.Add Fried curry leaves to the batter and mix it. 5.Heat dosa pan with 1 spn of oil. 6.Now pour rava dosa batter in pan with small small gaps in between. 7.Put oil in sides of dosa and in gaps if needed. 8.Put chopped onion and Coriander leaves over Dosa. 8.Cook until dosa becomes crispy and little brown. 9.Serve it hot with Tomato Chutney. Visit Sides : Idly Dosa Podi Varieties of tomato chutney Varieties of onion Chutney

How to make Chappathi : All you need is - Wheat Flour - 2 cups Salt to Taste Water  Oil - 2 tbspn Optional Item for super soft Chappathi - Milk  (2 Tbspn ) Method : 1. Create Dough using the items above and roll it in round shape or any shape u need ;) 2. Heat Chappathi Pan with 1 spn of oil. 3. Place Chappathi in pan and heat both sides. How to make Veg Kurma : All you need is - Chopped Onion -2 Chopped tomato - 2 Chopped Potatoes -2 Green Peas - few (as per need) Green Chillies - 3 chopped Curry Leaves and Coriander Leaves Chilly Powder - 1 Tbspn Turmeric Powder -1/2 spn Briyani Leaf , Patta - few Sombu - 1 spn Coconut paste - 1 cup Salt Method : 1. Heat pan with Oil.  2. Drop Briyani Leaf, Patta,Sombu. 3. Add Onion and fry for 1 min. 4. Add Grinded Tomato and cook it for 1 min. 5. Add Chopped Potatoes , Green peas & pour 1 cup of water. 6. Now we can add all masalas i.e., chilly powder ,turmer...

Ingredients :  Curry Leaves - 1 cup Bengal Gram / Kadala Parupu - 1 Tbspn Coconut - 1 cup Dry Red Chilly - 3 (or as per your Taste) Salt. Method : 1. Heat pan with 1 tbspn of oil. 2. Drop Bengal gram and fry until it turn light brown. 3. Add curry leaves , coconut and red chilly  4. Cook for 2 mins. 5. Grind this with salt as per your taste. Note : Coconut helps to decrease the bitterness of Curry Leaves. Curry Leaves chutney can be served with  hot rice and ghee / Curd rice / Rasam Rice.

Ingredients :  Idly - 5 Tomato Big -1 Dry Red Chilly -1 Onion Medium - 1 Capsicum - 1/2 Curry Leaves and Coriander Leaves - Few Chilly Powder - 1 Tbspn Salt & Oil. Method :  1. Heat Oil in a pan and drop mustard,Bengal gram (kadala paruppu) and curry leaves. 2. Fry for 1 min and add Chopped Onion and chopped casicum. 3. Fry onion till it turn light brown. 4. Grind tomato with one red chilly. 5. Add this tomato paste to the pan in stove with fried onion. 6. Add Chilli powder and salt.Let it cook for few mins. 7. Drop chopped Idlies and mix well so that the gravy gets into idly. 8. Cook for 1 min and Off the stove. 9. Decorate with Corriander Leaves.  Note : you can even add green peas , garam masala... Its your food .. Do explore ... make mistakes and Learn with fun.. After all 5 idlies ;) :P :D

Rava Kitchadi       Ingredients  - Rava - 2 Cups Water – 5 cups Chopped Onion - 1 lengthwise Chopped Green chilli - 5 Ginger Garlic Paste : 1 ½ Spoon Chopped Carrot - 1 Chopped Tomato  - 1 Peas - 1/2 cup Oil – 3 tbspl Mustard – 1 tspn Channa dhal – 1-2 tblspn Urad dhal - 1 tblspn Curry leaves - Few Coriander leaves- Few  Keep them aside -   Fry the cashew nuts in ghee with a low flame till it turns golden brown color and Keep them aside. Fry the rava in a medium flame till it turns to very light brown in  color  and Keep them aside. Method : Pre heat oil and ghee in a pan and  add mustard seeds ,curry leaves ,urad dhall,  channa dhall,green chillies, a pinch of asafoetida powder ,  ginger garlic paste and fry it . Now add onion and fry it for 1 min. Add chopped tomatoes  and fry it for another 1 min. Add carrot and peas and saute' for 2 mts ,  add a pinch of turmer...